Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Davis, John Martin, Jr., “Coosaw Rock Alchemy: A Short History of River-Phosphate Mining in Beaufort County,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (Oct. 2008), 269–94.
DiStefano, Diana L., “Disasters, Railway Workers, and the Law in Avalanche Country, 1888–1910,” Environmental History, 14 (July 2009), 476–501.
Greenberg, Jonathan D., “The Arctic in World Environmental History,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 42 (Oct. 2009), 1307–92.
Igler, David, “Gods, and Patriotic Geology; Or, James Dwight Dana Assembles the Pacific Basin,” Pacific Historical Review, 79 (Feb. 2010), 23–49.
Leich, Jeffrey R., “New Hampshire and the Emergence of an American Ski Industry,” Historical New Hampshire, 63 (Fall 2009), 79–99. Heavily illustrated.
Lowitt, Richard, “Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945–1964,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Fall 2009), 260–93.
Raish, Carol, and Alice M. McSweeney, “Land Grants and the U.S. Forest Service,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1039–55.
Richter, Daniel deB., “The Accrual of Land Use History in Utah’s Forest Carbon Cycle,” Environmental History, 14 (July 2009), 527–42.
Schiller, Mark, “The History and Adjudication of the Antonio Chávez Grant,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1057–79.
Schneider-Hector, Dietmar, “Aldo Leopold Wilderness: Ensuring a Legacy While Protecting ‘a Ruggedly Beautiful Country,’” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Autumn 2009), 379–401.
Shilling, Dan, “Aldo Leopold Listens to the Southwest,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Autumn 2009), 317–50.
Stauder, Jack, “Aldo Leopold and the Blue River: An Ironic Legacy,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Autumn 2009), 351–77.
Sutter, Paul S., “When Environmental Traditions Collide: Ramachandra Guha’s The Unquiet Woods and U.S. Environmental History,” Environmental History, 14 (July 2009), 543–50.
Akins, Damon B., “Lines on the Land: The San Luis Rey River Reservations and the Origins of the Mission Indian Federation, 1850–1934” (University of Oklahoma, 2009). Order No. DA3352844.
Anderson, Jahue, “Red Earth, Salty Waters: A History of Environmental Knowledge in the Upper Red River Basin” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352828.
Chilton, Eric, “Recreating Nature: Ecocritical Readings of Yosemite and Grand Canyon” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3350428.
Fischer, John Ryan, “Domesticating the Pacific Frontier: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350726.
Frank, Jerritt James, “Marketing the Mountains: An Environmental History of Tourism in Rocky Mountain National Park” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3349893.
Hanes, Samuel Paris, “The High Modernist Moment: Oysters, Knowledge Production, and Conservation in the Progressive Era, 1878–1917” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349886.
Hecht, Romy, “The Attack on Greenery: Critical Perceptions of the American Man-Made Landscape, 1955–1969” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3356717.
Sol, David, “Watershed Moments: An Environmental History of the New York City Water Supply” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3354512.
Cutchins, Dennis, and Eric A. Eliason, eds., Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxii, 230 pp. $48.00, isbn 978-1-57233-670-4.)
Sarat, Austin, and Javier Lezaun, eds., Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-737-5. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-55849-738-2.)
Taylor, Dorceta E., The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s–1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii, 626 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4436-0. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4451-3.)
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